Products
A Lifelong Practice of Invention in Sound, Software, and Systems
From early electronic devices to advanced music and signal-processing systems, I have spent a lifetime building tools that expand creative expression. My work spans music notation, MIDI editing, wave analysis, event recognition, and visual synthesis, all connected by a deeper exploration of pattern, structure, and the relationship between sound, image, and experience.
My early software focused on music itself. Projects like Composer’s Assistant explored automated transcription and arrangement, while systems such as M.P.S. and M.E.S.A. pushed forward the integration of MIDI, real-time editing, and traditional music notation. These tools were part of a larger shift, helping move digital music from raw data toward structured, expressive form.
From there, my work moved deeper into signal processing and analysis. This led to the development of systems and patents under the title “Method and Apparatus for Wave Analysis and Event Recognition,” focusing on how audio streams could be understood as patterns and events rather than just sound. That line of thinking eventually expanded into a broader creative system. The Visual Synthesizer brought together music, graphics, and animation into a unified, real-time environment. Built on rule-based composition principles inspired in part by A New Kind of Science, it explored how complex visual and sonic structures could emerge from simple underlying rules.
Across these projects, the forms have changed, but the underlying idea has remained consistent. Each product is part of an ongoing exploration into pattern, structure, and the relationship between sound, image, and experience.
The pages that follow contain examples of these systems. In many cases, what remains are the manuals, sketches, and fragments of the original work.